1, can I eat it when it's dark?
If the surface of Lycium barbarum is black, if the seeds inside are not black after opening, Lycium barbarum is not bad and can still be eaten.
If Lycium barbarum is stored in a humid environment for a long time, it will regain its moisture, turn black and become sticky, and take away oil. At this time, Lycium barbarum is easily contaminated by mold and can't be eaten any more.
2. Why is it black?
There are generally the following conditions that lead to the blackening of medlar:
1. Lycium barbarum stored in a dark and humid place for a long time, or exposed to the air, will gradually deteriorate after long-term moisture absorption, leading to color changes.
2. Lycium barbarum contains a lot of polysaccharides. If these sugars are exposed to the air for a long time, they will be oxidized, resulting in black color.
3. How to prevent moisture?
Lycium barbarum tends to turn black when it is wet and sticky. In this case, it shouldn't be placed in the sun. Sticky Lycium barbarum can be completely sealed and refrigerated in the refrigerator.
When baking dried medlar, pay attention to the baking temperature. The most suitable temperature is about 60 degrees. It is best to use an oven, dry it, and fashion bags to avoid stir-frying.
When the weather is fine, you can spread out the medlar and put it in a dry, ventilated and sunny place to dry, but don't expose it to the sun. Let the medlar dry slowly and put the dried medlar into the bag in time. The best time for bagging is four or five o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, the sunshine is sufficient, the humidity is relatively small, and the medlar is not easy to regain moisture. The air humidity is low in spring and summer, so this method is the most suitable.
4. How to preserve Lycium barbarum?
1. Lycium barbarum should be stored in a dry place, and the moisture, temperature and oxygen content in the air should be controlled during storage.
2. Put the medlar in the refrigerator, or store it in a dry environment below 4℃, and the air in the south is humid. When storing Lycium barbarum, pay attention to sealing and put it in the refrigerator.
3. Put a small bag filled with quicklime in a bag or container filled with Lycium barbarum, and be careful not to put too much quicklime, then put Lycium barbarum, dry the plastic bag filled with Lycium barbarum or seal the container, store it in a cool place, and pay attention to check it at any time.
Prevent plastic bags from leaking.
5, the efficacy of Lycium barbarum
(1) Improve immunity.
Eating Lycium barbarum can enhance the body's resistance, strengthen the body's resistance to evil spirits, enhance physical skills, promote health recovery, and improve the body's disease resistance, thus preventing the invasion of evil spirits.
(2) Anti-cancer
Lycium barbarum can obviously inhibit the formation and spread of cancer cells. The results of contemporary experiments and clinical applications show that drinking Lycium barbarum leaves instead of tea leaves can significantly improve and improve the immune function and physiological function of the elderly, the infirm and tumor patients, and has the functions of strengthening the body and delaying aging. Germanium, a trace element contained in Lycium barbarum tablets, can obviously inhibit cancer cells, make them rupture completely, reduce the toxic effect of chemotherapy on cancer patients, prevent leukopenia and regulate immune function.
(3) protect your eyes and improve your eyesight
Lycium barbarum is especially good at improving eyesight, so it is also commonly known as "improving eyesight". Chinese wolfberry is often used by doctors in past dynasties to treat blurred vision and night blindness caused by liver blood deficiency and kidney yin deficiency. The famous prescription "Siju Huangdi Pill" takes Lycium barbarum as the main medicine. People also use Lycium barbarum to treat chronic eye diseases. Steamed eggs with Lycium barbarum is a simple and effective prescription.
(4) fatigue resistance
Lycium barbarum can significantly increase the storage of muscle glycogen and liver glycogen, improve human vitality and have anti-fatigue effect.
(5) Enhance the ability of learning and memory.
Lycium barbarum can improve brain function and enhance people's learning and memory ability.
(6) Reducing blood lipid and treating hypertension.
Eating Lycium barbarum can significantly reduce the contents of serum cholesterol and triacylglycerol, relieve and prevent arteriosclerosis and treat hypertension. It is a good health product for patients with coronary heart disease.
(7) Enhance human hematopoietic function.
Lycium barbarum can obviously promote the proliferation of hematopoietic cells, increase the number of white blood cells and enhance the hematopoietic function of human body.
(8) effectively delaying aging
Lycium barbarum is a good medicine for strengthening the body resistance, nourishing essence and marrow, nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, benefiting qi and calming the nerves, strengthening the body and delaying aging. Lycium barbarum L. has been the top grade of nourishing, strengthening and nourishing people since ancient times, which can effectively enhance various organ functions, improve brain functions, resist free radicals and have obvious anti-aging effects.
(9) skin care
Lycium barbarum can improve the ability of skin to absorb oxygen, and also play a role in whitening skin. Lycium barbarum has obvious curative effect on psoriasis, and also has different degrees of curative effect on other skin diseases.
(10) strengthening the body and strengthening yang, improving male sexual function and treating male infertility.
As a tonic, it has a good curative effect on kidney deficiency and liver and kidney diseases, and can significantly increase the plasma testosterone content of human body, thus achieving the effect of strengthening the body and strengthening yang. Has obvious curative effect on sexual hypofunction. Lycium barbarum can improve the sperm quantity and sperm motility of patients with oligozoospermia, so it can treat male infertility.
(1 1) Reduce blood sugar and treat diabetes.
Because Lycium barbarum contains guanidine derivatives, which can lower blood sugar, Lycium barbarum can be used as a health care product for diabetics.
(12) Protect liver and prevent fatty liver.
Lycium barbarum has the functions of protecting liver and tonifying kidney, inhibiting fat deposition in liver cells and promoting liver cell regeneration.
(13) Relieve allergic inflammation
Lycium barbarum can relieve gastrointestinal and joint pain, bleeding and other symptoms caused by allergies, and these effects are achieved by regulating endocrine.
(14) Treating chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis.
Citrate betaine, the effective component of Lycium barbarum, has a good therapeutic effect on liver diseases such as chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis.
(15) Treatment of obesity
Making tea with Lycium barbarum every day can reduce weight and treat obesity.